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Everywhere You Look – Rewind

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to his edification.  Romans 15:2  NASB 1977 Please – The wonderful thing about paradigms is that they help you make sense of the world.  In fact, if you start discovering anomalies in your world—things that just don’t add up–paradigms offer useful solutions.  You can claim…
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The Great Debate

to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,  Ephesians 3:6  NASB Fellow heirs and fellow members – Put aside, for a moment, the great theological themes of Paul.  You know, those doctrines like justification by faith, election, righteousness, predestination, and…
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Prayers for Non-Professionals

One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”  Luke 11:1 NIV Teach us – The disciples were Jewish, through and through.  They had been praying in the synagogue and in their homes since they were…
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A History Lesson

For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.  1 Thessalonians 2:13  NASB Accepted – This verse raises several important questions:  1) Why did…
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Polluted

a person who touches any such shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat of the holy gifts unless he has bathed his body in water.  Leviticus 22:6 Until – Eve Levavi Feinstein points out that the biblical idea of pollution (ritual and moral) is quite similar to our present idea of environmental pollution.  She writes:…
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But I Feel Guilty

For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;  1 Thessalonians 4:3  NASB Sexual immorality – As you know, there are two kinds of impurity in the Bible.  The first is ritual impurity.  All kinds of ordinary human conditions can be the cause of ritual impurity, like seminal emissions…
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